Printer s form



(No Model.)

F. K. TRACY.

PRINTERS FORM.

No. 314,495; Patented Mar..24.,j1885.

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` 7L/bball( K ffl/coa l, 7'/ Zd @M @D @wvl/m l ATTORNEYS UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK K. TRACY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PRINTERS FORM.

.SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0.3l4,4:95, dated March24. 1885.

Application led February 18, 1884. (No model.)

T0 all whom, it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK K. TRACY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Printers Forms; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention.

My invention relates to improvements in printers forms and the means formaking them up, and has for its object to provide stereotype-plates withbases composed of sections which can be furnished in labor-savinglengths, and are adapted some to support the plates and others to securethem by receiving the nails or other securing devices. I seek toaccomplish this object in the manner hereinafter described, andillustrated in the drawing hereunto attached, and wherein the figurerepresents a perspective view of a printers form with the features of myinvention in the various stages of their application.

A is the chase. B is the foot-stick. C is the side-stick. D D are thecolumns; E E, the column-rules; F F, the quoins; X X, brad-heads; Y Yand Z Z, blocks to form the base. G G are sections ofthe thin plates,and His a portion of matter. I is an unfilled space in the middlecolumn. .I is an open space between the base-blocks Z.

The base-blocks can be made of any desired material-as wood or metal-andthey should be made of varying lengths. They may be furnished inlabor-saving"7 lengths.

The fastening-blocks may be made of wood, to receive fastening-braids.or they may be made of metal and provided with screw-holes to receivescrews to hold the plate. These blocks are made slightly wider than theplates, so that the latter can be easily let down into place when theform is made up.

The plates are cast in suitable sections with smooth backs, so as toliesmoothly on the bases. They are also provided at convenient distanceswith holes to receive the brads or other securing devices. Theperforations might be made at regular intervals of, say, six inches, inwhich case the base-blocks would be arranged so as to bring a small oneunder each bradhole, and thus the large blocks would be protected frominjury. If this arrangement is preferred, the long blocks should be madeof hard durable wood or metal and the short blocks of soft wood,slightly lower than the long blocks. The long blocks are described assupporting-blocks and the smaller blocks as fastening-blocks. In manycases the blocks may, when arranged in place, be a considerable distanceapart. This arrangement will facilitate making up the form;` but caremust be taken not to place the blocks too far apart, as in that casethere would be danger of the plate breaking when in use.

Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is#

1. In a printers form, the combination of column-rules, a series of longand short blocks for the base in each column, and printingplates placedbetween the rules and secured to the short blocks of the base.

2. In a printers form, the combination of column-rules, a series of longsupporting blocks and short fastening-blocks somewhat lower than thesupporting-blocks, and thin printing-plates placed between the rules andsecured to the fastening-blocks.

3. In a printers form, the combination of column-rules, a series of longmetal supporting-blocks and short fastening-blocks in each column, andthin printing-plates placed between the Iules and secured to thefastening blocks.

4. In a printers form, the combination ot' column-rules, a series oflong supportingblocks and short wooden fastening-blocks in each column,and thin printingplates between the-rules and secured to the fasteningblocks.

5. In a printers form,'the combination of column-rules, a series of longmetal supporting-blocks and short wooden fastening-blocks in eachcolumn, and thin printing-plates between the rules and secured to thefasteningblocks.

6. In a printers form, the combination of column-rules, a series of longmetal supporting-blocks and short wooden fastening-blocks somewhat lowerthan the supporting-blocks in each column, and thin printing platesplaced between the rules and secured tothe fastening-blocks.

FREDERICK K. TRACY.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS W. PARKER, CHAs. S. BURTON.

